Fastening device.



WIT/JESSE PATENTED MAY 14, 1907.

F. HEISDORP. FASTENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED PBB.4, 1907.

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I TTOHNEIS FRANCIS HEISDORF, OF IRVINGTON, NEW YORK.

FASTENING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. I

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application fil d February 4,1907. Serial No. 355,531.

To all whont it may concern;

Be it known that I, FRANCIS I-IEIsDonF, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Irvington, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled. in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to fastening devices and particularly to devices of this class designed for use on shoes, and the object there of is to rovide an improved fastening device or evices of this class which may also be used as a glove fastener and on corsets and various other articles.

The invention is fullydisclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a shoe provided with my improved fastening device or devices; Fig. 2 a view of a spiral spring which forms a part of my improved fastening device or devices; and, Fig. 3 a section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown an ordinary shoe a provided with the usual front opening 0. forming flaps or flies c and in the practice of my invention, I provide a fastening device comprising a central member I) and two end members 0 and d. The central member b, in the form of construction shown, comprises a spiral spring provided at one end with an eye orring b and at the other with an eye or ring b The art 0 of the fastening device comprises a nob provided with barbs or prongs c which, inractice, are passed through the eye or ring 2 of the central part b of the fastening device and through one of the flaps or flies a of the shoe.

The part (Z of the fastening device comprises a socket member oil which is ada ted to be secured to or in theother flap or y c and a knob member (1 provided centrally of its inner side with a spring bulb or head (I adapted to be .inserted into the socket member (1 as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

In practice the central member I) is per- I manently secured to one of the flaps or flies of by means of the knob member 0 as shown in Fig. 3, and when it is desired to fasten the shoe the central member is swung into position so that the part d, which is passed through the ring or eye If, may be forced into the socket member (1 The parts (i and (1 together with the spring head member (Z of the part (1 form a fastening device similar in operation to an ordinary glove fastening device of the ball and socket type.

Any desired number of these devices may be used on a shoe, or on a glove, or on a corset or on any other article where such devices are required, and in practice the central part b is preferably composed of a spiral spring as clearly shown in the drawing.

My improved fastening device is simple in construction and easily operated and may also be made very ornamental in appearance.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A fastening device for shoes and other articles, comprising a spiral spring provided at both ends With an eye or ring, a knob provided with securing prongs or barbs adapted to be passed through one of said eyes or rings and through one part of the shoe or other article and another knob provided with a spring head adapted to be passed through the eye or ring at the opposite end of the spiral spring, and a socket member secured to another part of the shoe-or other article and adapted to receive said spring head.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in pres ence of the subscribing witnesses this 31st day of January 1907.

FRANCIS HEISDORF.

Witnesses:

H. C. FRENCH, MICHAEL J. DINAN. 

